New low point for ‘Market Demand’ in QLD on Sunday 20th August 2023
A sunny late winter's day in QLD sees new low point for minimum Market Demand.
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New low-point for demand in NSW on Easter Sunday, 9th April 2023
It's Easter Sunday (9th April 2023) and it looks like NSW minimum demand has fallen further from the prior record set 6 months ago.
Victorian minimum demand drops lower on Sunday 18th December 2022
A series of SMS alerts today, whilst I was out-and-about prompted me to take a look at the new low point for Victorian minimum demand on Sunday 18th December 2022.
A new lowest point for NSW demand on Saturday 29th October 2022
Electricity demand in NSW has dropped to a new 'lowest in NEM history' point on Saturday 29th October 2022
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Hot on the heels of a new low point for Operational Demand in South Australia on the weekend, this evening AEMO warns of an ‘elevated risk of contingent disconnection of Distributed PV’ tomorrow (Wed...
‘Market Demand’ in Victoria drops to a new low point on Sunday 2nd October 2022 … and ‘Operational Demand’ as well
A short article with the Victorian 'Market Demand' dropping to new low point for minimum demand on Sunday 2nd October 2022.
Minimum Demand drops lower, on Sunday 25th September 2022 – for the NSW region, and also NEMwide
A short article on Sunday 25th September 2022 to record some new low points for 'minimum demand' in the NSW region, and on a NEMwide basis.
‘Minimum Demand’ records pushed lower in QLD on Sunday 11th September 2022 … re ‘Emergency backstop mechanism’
'Minimum Demand' for the QLD region (in recent years and excluding 25th May 2021) drops lower still on Sunday 11th September 2022.
QLD minimum demand drops lower still on Sunday 14th August 2022
A short note on Sunday 14th August 2022 with electricity demand in QLD hitting new low points.
New lowest point for QLD ‘Market Demand’ on Sunday 7th August … excluding outages
QLD 'Market Demand' is dropping past prior low point (excluding 25th May 2021 with the loss of load).
‘Market Demand’ in Victoria moves a shade lower on Tuesday 28th December 2021 … but not quite, for Operational Demand
A quick look at Tuesday 28th December 2021 - when 'Market Demand' (but not 'Operational Demand') fell a shade lower than the prior low point record.
Scheduled demand in SA goes negative, again
Scheduled demand in SA drops below zero for the second time in less than a week.
Scheduled Demand drops *below 0MW* in South Australia on Sunday 21st November 2021
South Australia hits a very low point for 'Market Demand' on Sunday 21st November 2021 ... all the way down to *actually be below zero!*
Updated tabulated record of minimum demand points – for each region, and NEM-wide – following 31st Oct 2021
Updating the minimum demand records, following new low points seen for VIC and SA (but not NSW, as I had thought earlier) for Minimum Demand.
New Minimum Demand point also set for Victoria on Sunday 31st October 2021
Second region today (Sun 31st Oct 2021) to see a new 'minimum demand' record was the Victorian region ... when looking at Scheduled Demand (after correcting my mistake about NSW).
[CORRECTION – CLOSE TO] New Record Scheduled Demand point also set for NSW on Sunday 31st October 2021 (Part 2)
[CORRECTION - CLOSE TO] Second region to fall lower on Sunday 31st October 2021, in terms of Minimum Scheduled Demand, was the NSW region
Minimum Demand records drop lower – for the SA region, and NEM-wide (Part 1)
On Sunday 31st October 2021 we see minimum demand level drop considerably lower for the South Australian region ... and also a new record set on a NEM-wide basis.
Recapping where the records sit, in ‘record minimum demand’ following Sunday 17th October 2021 (Part 4)
Capping off a weekend of new low points for minimum demand in NSW, and NEM-wide (and some near misses elsewhere) this table sums up where the low points sit.
A monster leak in the Grid drives ‘Minimum Demand’ on a NEM-wide basis down on Sunday 17th October 2021 (part 3)
Slightly later than happened for the NSW region, here's the stats for the large reduction for 'minimum demand' on a NEM-wide basis for Sunday 17th October 2021